Mrs. Culp Revisited: Sept. 27, 1937

Dr. Urbuteit gives her a dire diagnosis

The Culps went to see Dr. Urbuteit to take a treatment. (Read the March 29 entry of Mrs. Culp’s diary to get the low-down on this low character.) “He discouraged me very much, that I have arthritis [and] will be crippled like he is. That made me very despondent,” she wrote. Despite the quack doctor’s promise of curing all sorts of diseases with his elec…